Processors & Corporates
Digitising Contract Potato Procurement and Cold Chain Movement
Processing-grade potato moves from contracted farms into cold stores months before it is used. Losing identity at intake makes every downstream claim an estimate.
The challenge
- Contract farming agreements, seed allocations, grading standards and payment terms are managed on paper and reconciled manually against physical deliveries.
- Produce sits in cold storage across multiple third-party facilities for months, and stock movement between chambers is recorded inconsistently.
- Quality disputes at withdrawal cannot be resolved because there is no linked record of intake grade, storage conditions and farm of origin.
How the platform solves it
Digital farmer agreements and allocation
Agreements are generated against registered farms with agreed area, variety, seed allocation and grade-linked pricing, so procurement plans and field reality reconcile from the start of the season.
Weighbridge-linked intake
Intake is recorded at the collection point with grade, weight and farm identity captured together, producing a farmer receipt and a traceable batch in the same transaction.
Cold store lot management
Chamber, lot position and movement events are tracked across owned and third-party facilities, so withdrawal resolves to the farms that supplied the lot and the conditions it was held under.
Grade and payment reconciliation
Grading outcomes flow directly into settlement calculation, removing the manual step where most disputes and delays originate.
Outcomes
- Contract terms and physical delivery reconciled automatically
- Farm identity preserved through months of cold storage
- Quality disputes resolvable from a linked record
- Faster, more accurate farmer settlements
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